We both come from families who like to collect things. That’s great when we need 100 mason jars, dozens of string lights, or enough scrap lumber to build a second house, but it’s not good for keeping an organized home. Seriously, who needs this many mason jars??
This was the most organized area of our home.
We’ve often wondered just how many hours our lives are spent on “stuff management” such as:
- Doing the dishes
- Cleaning the house
- Putting away toys
- Doing the laundry
- Organizing the basement/closet/bedroom/etc.
I guess these are normal “adulting” things to do – but the hours add up!
So we’ve spent the past few months getting rid of most of our stuff. Goodbye mason jars. Goodbye baskets of toys. Goodbye boxes of junk that have sat in the basement for years. Goodbye to needing a month’s worth of clothing and a lifetime of shoes. Goodbye stuff!
We’ll still need to do the dishes, wash our clothes, and organize the toys. But 90 square feet of living space only allows for so much stuff and will force us to have way less. Hopefully we won’t have to spend so much time managing it all.
That, or we could always buy a bigger trailer 🙂
(Okay – so we can’t get rid of EVERYTHING. Big thanks to our parents for storing some of the irreplaceable items during our year of travel)
